Monument of nature (1947). Cave-grotto Chokurcha is one of the oldest monuments of human life in the Crimea. The cave is located on the outskirts of Simferopol, in the valley of the Maly Salgir River. It is curious that Chokurcha faces north with its entrance; this in itself is an exceptional phenomenon for the cave sites of primitive man. The depth of the grotto is up to 15 meters, the width is about 7 meters.

Chokurcha Cave has become widely known as a site of a man of the Paleolithic era. During many years of excavations under a two-meter layer, archaeologists discovered flint tools, numerous bones and tusks of young mammoths. On the ceiling of the vault of the cave-grotto, amazing drawings carved in limestone were washed from soot. Among them is the sun with rays, and on the sides are half-meter images of a mammoth and a fish. Numerous bones and other extinct animals were found in the cave. Judging by the finds, 50 thousand years ago, a cave bear, a cave hyena, a primitive bull, a wild horse, a giant deer, a saiga antelope, a rhinoceros lived in the foothills of the Crimea.